capny/Jan 16 By Azi Paybarah in New York, Jimmy Vielkind in Albany, and Mike Allen in D.C., with Daniel Lippman THE NARRATIVE -- Al Sharpton and Pat Lynch: not popular -- Capital’s Dana Rubinstein: “In the last week, Quinnipiac University pollsters asked 1,182 New York City voters, ‘is your opinion of Rev. Al Sharpton favorable, unfavorable or havent you heard enough about him?’ Fifty-three percent of those questioned said unfavorable, while 29 percent said favorable. But the results varied dramatically by demographic, with 56 percent of black voters signaling their support for Sharpton, while only 16 percent of white voters did. … 51 percent of those questioned said Sharpton was a mostly negative force in New York City. These were Sharptons lowest Quinnipiac scores ever.” goo.gl/tET7sh --Post cover, “REV-OLTING: NYers rip Al & Lynch alike in 1st poll on cops.” bit.ly/1uTkiZw --Times p. A23, 69 percent of “Voters Disapprove of Police Officers’ Protests and Work Slowdown, Poll Finds,” by Michael M. Grynbaum and Matt Flegenheimer: “By overwhelming margins, New York City voters objected to the back-turning protests and work slowdown that have roiled the Police Department, an auspicious turn for Mayor Bill de Blasio as he seeks to end weeks of open tensions between officers and City Hall.” nyti.ms/1G5NwhT --Quinnipiac release: “Police union leader Patrick Lynchs comments that the mayors office had blood on its hands are ‘too extreme,’ voters say 77 - 17 percent, the … Poll finds. There is no party, gender, racial, borough or age group which finds the comments ‘appropriate.’” bit.ly/1sFxp4y MAYOR’S CAMPAIGN SPENDS MORE THAN IT RAISES -- Capital’s Sally Goldenberg: “Over the past six months, … de Blasio spent more than twice as much as he took in for his 2017 account, which was presumably set up so he can run for re-election, campaign filings released Thursday show. … de Blasio has taken in $50,350 and spent $46,823 out of his 2017 account, but over the past six months he has raised just $6,250 and spent $14,257 … “He spent $173 on Dec. 22 at the well-known Harlem restaurant Red Rooster. The expense was only listed as a ‘meeting,’ but likely covered the tab he and former president Bill Clinton racked up at the restaurant on Dec. 18.” goo.gl/VqNepG MEDIA DAY -- “NBC Finds New Today Show Boss,” by New York Magazine’s Joe Adalian: “[T]he network is expected to bring on former Today senior producer-turned-screenwriter Noah Oppenheim to serve as senior VP at NBC News, giving him oversight of the morning show and essentially filling the vacancy created by the recent firing of Today general manager Jamie Horowitz. ... Oppenheim will be pausing a very successful screenwriting career to take the gig: He co-wrote the adaptation of last fall’s box office hit ‘The Maze Runner’ and more recently was tapped to write the third film in the ‘Divergent’ franchise, ‘Allegiant.’ But Oppenheim also has deep ties inside NBC News, having spent eight years at the division during the early 2000s.” nym.ag/1C6LKJa FOX ACCORD: Fox News Channel and Dish Network cut a deal last night to restore the cable news channel to Dish’s 14 million subscribers—and Fox got a big bump in carriage fees under the new deal, Capital has learned. FNC is getting north of $1.50 per subscriber, making it one of the highest fees for any cable channel not named ESPN. The deal also moves Fox Business Network to the basic tier, expanding its distribution. GENIUS IN YOUR BACKYARD: Genius is testing a new feature that would let users annotate any site on the web, including news sites without hard paywalls. The Andreessen Horowitz–backed startup has made a number of moves in the last month—poaching The New Yorker’s pop music critic Sasha Frere-Jones, bringing on New Yorker contributor Christopher Glazek, hiring well-connected Millennial flacks Emily Segal and Audrey Gelman to guide its media coverage—but the introduction of this feature (which is currently still in beta testing) could fundamentally transform the service and its relationship to news organizations. Peter Sterne has more: bit.ly/156eWTS TIMES GROWS NATIVE: The New York Times is staffing up a department that makes in-house branded content for marketers as part of its push to grow digital advertising revenues, advertising at least seven new positions—ranging from finance editor to social analytics manager—for T Brand Studio. —The Studio launched roughly a year ago in conjunction with the Times native advertising platform, Paid Posts. At the Times, which is dogged by print advertising declines, Paid Posts contributed to a 16.5 percent uptick, to $38.2 million, during the third quarter of 2014. Times spokeswoman Linda Zebian said the studio did more than 40 campaigns, for companies ranging from Netflix to Shell, during its inaugural 2014 run. capi.tl/17MglRa TABS -- Post: “REV-OLTING; NYers rip Al & Lynch alike in 1st poll on cops” -- News: “NYPD’s SLIMIEST; Detective demoted after trying to tear clothes off his ‘favorite’ victim’” -- amNY: “MLK’s MESSAGE” -- El Diario: “Start the replevin” FRONT PAGES -- Times, 1-col. above the fold: “2016 Hopefuls Skirt Leaders of the G.O.P.; Party Fracturing Even as It Flexes Power” -- WSJNY, 4-col. above the fold: “City Council Tests de Blasio” DE BLASIO’S CONCILIATORY APPROACH TO THE NYPD -- Capital’s Sally Goldenberg: “De Blasio took a conciliatory tone toward police officers Thursday in his ongoing efforts to mend fences with the NYPD, putting the vitriolic feud with several police union leaders behind him. The mayor said he supports a proposal released earlier in the day by the City Council, to purchase new bulletproof vests for officers. Such budget requests typically take months to hash out between the two sides of City Hall, but this one was virtually settled immediately. … He also took care to denounce hostility toward police during upcoming protests.” goo.gl/HE3gPK MAYOR’S ALLIES COMPLICATED HIS STRATEGY WITH POLICE -- Lead of WSJ Greater New York section, “City Council Tests de Blasio,” by Mara Gay: “De Blasio’s efforts to end a bitter rift with parts of the police force could be complicated by his liberal allies on the City Council, whose proposed legislation to revise certain law-enforcement tactics are vehemently opposed by police unions. One bill would require police officers to gain consent before conducting a street search without probable cause or a warrant. A second would require officers to identify themselves—by name, rank and command—to anyone they stop if there is no arrest or summons.” goo.gl/Z0qwPB HISTORY LESSON – VIDEO -- “The Newspaper Crisis of 1945” on TheAtlantic: “Months before World War II would end, a labor battle led New York City’s delivery workers to picket lines. Newspaper circulation quickly plummeted. This fascinating archival report describes how readers tried to circumvent the strike, and how many scrambled to embrace radio as an alternative. Then-Mayor La Guardia is even shown reading the funny pages on air!” theatln.tc/1KPsns5 QUOTE OF DAY -- “Subway Poles Epitomize New York City, Police Chief [Bratton] Says,” by DNAinfo’s Trevor Kapp: “The true symbol of New York City isn’t the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building or Grand Central — its the subway pole.At least, thats what NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton sees as an icon of hope for the metropolis.‘The subway pole is truly the symbol of New York City,’ Bratton told Charlie Rose in an interview that aired on PBS Wednesday night.‘You look at all those different hands, black, brown, yellow, grease under the fingernails, jewelry, manicured fingernails.’” bit.ly/1Cej4Mi HAPPENING SUNDAY? “Workers at New York’s giant produce market could strike over weekend,” by Reuters’ Ellen Wulfhorst: “New York restaurants and grocers scrambled on Thursday to make alternative plans for supplies of fresh food ahead of a possible weekend strike at the citys largest wholesale produce market.Some 1,300 members of Teamsters Local 202 could walk off their jobs on loading platforms and storage facilities at the Hunts Point Produce Market in the South Bronx on Sunday ... Hunts Point, which claims to be the worlds largest wholesale produce market, supplies about 60 percent of the produce in the New York metropolitan area ... Its customers primarily are small food markets and greengrocers, along with wholesalers and purveyors that sell produce to restaurants.” yhoo.it/1DJwJ1U TONER PRIZE DEADLINE – “Deadline is Monday, Jan. 19. No entry fee. Open to 2014 local or national coverage on any platform. The Toner Prize has a $5,000 award. It honors the late Robin Toner of The New York Times and is sponsored by the Newhouse School of Syracuse University.” Entry form:bit.ly/1BzOgYp EAT BEAT -- “The 13 Best Tasting Menus In NYC,” by Business Insider’s Portia Crowe: “Battersby 255 Smith St., Brooklyn ... Betony 41 W. 57th St., Manhattan ... Brooklyn Fare 200 Schermerhorn St., Brooklyn ... Contra 138 Orchard St., Manhattan ... Delaware & Hudsonb135 N 5th St., Manhattan ... The Eddy 324 E. 6th St., Manhattan ... Gramercy Tavern 42 E. 20th St., Manhattan ... Kajitsu 125 E. 39th St., Manhattan ... Luksus at Tørst 615 Manhattan Ave., Brooklyn ... Mas (farmhouse) 39 Downing St., Manhattan ... The Modern 9 W. 53rd St., Manhattan ... The Musket Room 265 Elizabeth St., Manhattan.” read.bi/1AWNQtr PIX – “The Most Beautiful Old Movie Palace in Brooklyn, Back From the Brink,” by Vulture’s Christopher Bonanos: “There were five of them, called the Wonder Theaters. It was 1929. The new exhibition palaces had pipe organs, like cathedrals, and some of the pictures even talked, all by themselves! And when you set foot in a golden auditorium that seated 3,600, you too could feel imperial, at a cost of 25 cents. With candy, 30 cents.Brooklyn’s Wonder Theater was even called the Kings — the Loew’s Kings.” vult.re/1yptFVE CHRISTINE QUINN named a new Harvard IOP fellow – “Announcing the Spring 2015 Resident Fellows” – release: “Martha Coakley, Massachusetts attorney general (2007-15) ... Kay Hagan, U.S. Senator (2009-14; D-NC) ... Matt Lira, deputy executive director, [NRSC] (2013-14) ... Jay Newton-Small, Washington correspondent, TIME (2007-present) ... Christine Quinn, member (1999-2013) and speaker (2006-13), New York City Council.” bit.ly/1x8uD4v CLICKER -- “Stunning New York City Skyline Photographer From 7,500 Feet” – via ABC News’ GMA/Yahoo News: “Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Vincent Laforet captured one-of-a-kind photographs of New York City and all he had to do was hang out of a helicopter at 7,5000 feet above the city at night.” 11 surreal photos:abcn.ws/17O0UYA MILESTONE -- “Moscot, A New York Legend, Turns 100,” by The Daily Beast’s Justin Jones: “It’s crept in slowly: longtime New York establishments have slowly shuttered their doors, replaced by unobtainable high-rise condos, trendy shops with $100 tee shirts, and the feeling that everything you once knew no longer exists. The neighborhoods are changing and taking history with it.Landmarks like Studio 54 and CBGB came and went. Bleecker Bob’s Record Store closed after four vibrant decades. ... However, Moscot, an eyewear brand so synonymous with the City that its frames are recognized all across the globe, seems to be a last-man-standing in a rapidly changing metropolis—and even they were booted from their store at 118 Orchard Street to make way for new developments.” thebea.st/153Dhdw OUT AND ABOUT: Ret. Gen. Wesley Clark and the Weinstein Company hosted a special screening last night of “The Imitation Game,” the film about British computer pioneer and code-breaker Alan Turing, at the Florence Gould Hall Theater, with an audience filled with over 100 service members — comprised from the USO, active duty soldiers, veterans, members from the Veterans in Film and TV. Clark told the audience: “This movie is an important piece of history because it shows war is not only won by the soldiers, it’s also won by the smart guys who are out there thinking about it. The man who this story is about, Alan Turing, was one of those guys. He had brains, he had moral courage and he had integrity.” Trailer: bit.ly/1wZ2a4s REAL ESTATE -- Capital’s Ryan Hutchins: The mayor said his administration had beat its own affordable housing goal last year, recording 17,300 starts by the end of December. That included a flurry of activity in the last few months of the year when the Department of Housing Preservation and Development closed on financing for the construction or preservation of thousands of additional units. The administration had hoped to reach at least 16,000 by the end of the year. The mayor held a press conference in a low-income co-op in Brooklyn to announce the figures. The apartments would house 42,000 people. But much work remains: De Blasio campaigned on a pledge to preserve or create 200,000 units over a decade, and his plan to do so calls for building 60,000 new units. The city says its programs will ramp up over time, but even some top affordable housing advocates have questioned whether the goal will actually be met. The mayor, a liberal Democrat who has so far managed to keep the business community happy, will also need to win over Republicans in Albany as the rent control law and a key subsidy program expire. --“Jon Hamm’s Block Too Star-Studded to Be Named for Political Bigwig: Locals,” by DNAinfo’s Emily Frost: “A political consultant who neighbors want to rename a local block after is not famous enough to earn the honor on the star-studded street — which has boasted such residents as Norman Rockwell and Jon Hamm— according to locals who ripped the pick for ‘not being a household name.’David Garth — who is known as the father of political TV ads and who directed successful campaigns for mayors John Lindsay, Ed Koch and Rudy Giuliani — lived on West 67th Street between Columbus Avenue and Central Park West before passing away last month. ... Locals arguing against the proposal at a Tuesday night meeting of Community Board 7 insisted that are there far greater celebrities who have called the block home, including Noel Coward, Isadora Duncan, George Balanchine and Rudolph Valentino, among dozens of others.” bit.ly/1ubxcBD --By Highlighting Gains in Affordable Housing, de Blasio Raises a Counting Question, by Times Mireya Navarro: “Mr. Bloomberg, who had his own affordable housing goal of 165,000 units, said before he left office that 160,000 of the homes would be completed by the time his final term ended in 2013, with the rest on track to be finished by June 2014... According to the Independent Budget Office, about 8,700 units were included in either new construction or preservation projects that received financing... from January 2014 to June 2014. That means they spanned both the 2013-14 fiscal year, which began under Mr. Bloomberg, and the 2014 calendar year, Mr. de Blasio’s first 12 months in City Hall.” nyti.ms/14GDT7N --Ryan’s dispatch from the Real Estate Board of New York’s 119th Banquet: The crowd packed the Grand Ballroom at the New York Hilton, their conversations carrying on as dull roar even as people spoke from the stage. “Shhhhhhh,” commanded REBNY president Steven Spinola at least two dozen times. Of course, people don’t pay $1,100 per plate and don a tuxedo to listen to speeches and munch on steak. At least not these people. They were there to make deals, and not much was going to distract them from that. Was that just Chuck Schumer? In a sweater? But once award speech after award speech had come and gone, the lights suddenly flickered out, spot lights searched the room and a deep, masculine voice boomed from above, declaring it was time to be quiet. “Lets have some quiet to show how much we respect our president of 30 years. Spinola was given the Harry B. Helmsley Distinguished New Yorker Award. Even as he delivered his own, emotional acceptance speech, he still found himself shushing the room. And on the occasion of the 119th annual REBNY banquet, Spinola laid out why the event had become such an affair—and why the group is one of the most influential trade organizations in the state. “We love Wall Street, but New York is a real estate town,” he said. “It is the engine that makes everything possible in the Big Apple.” -- #slatepitches -- “The Myth of Gentrification: It’s extremely rare and not as bad for the poor as you think,” by John Buntin in Slate: “When the ethnic compositions of low-income black neighborhoods do change, it’s typically because Latinos and other immigrants move into a neighborhood—and such in-migration is probably more beneficial than harmful. As for displacement—the most objectionable feature of gentrification—there’s actually very little evidence it happens. In fact, so-called gentrifying neighborhoods appear to experience less displacement than nongentrifying neighborhoods.” slate.me/1G5kw9W THE HOME TEAMS -- Capital’s Howard Megdal: The Mets held voluntary workouts that cost their players $1000 apiece and may have violated the MLB collective bargaining agreement. goo.gl/NfYZxg --Bucks 95, Knicks 79: Carmelo Anthony made his triumphant return, playing in a London game that is apparently one of his motivations for delaying needed knee surgery. The Knicks fell behind 14-0, and lost their ninth straight game by double digits, though Anthony scored 25. The Knicks are now 1-23 since Thanksgiving. 1-23. --The MLS Superdraft was held in Philadelphia. In the first round, NYCFC selected Khiry Shelton, a target forward. (uslpdl/home/856710.html) The Red Bulls took Leo Stolz, the UCLA midfielder, considered the best college player available. They got him 18th overall, reportedly because he told teams ahead of time hed only sign in Los Angeles or New York. goo.gl/unbCCc --Hal Steinbrenner hasnt ruled out signing Max Scherzer, an excellent, expensive, still-unsigned starting pitcher. “We’re still the New York Yankees, all you guys know that,” Steinbrenner told the Daily News, his pinky probably touching his lips as he spoke, though the paper didnt say. “We know what the fans expect. We know what the town expects. We’re not going to be afraid to spend money.” --The day ahead: The Nets, who are reportedly shopping Brook Lopez more aggressively (whatever that means, maybe Billy King is talking louder?), travel to Washington. The Rangers are in Columbus. The Islanders host the Penguins. Iona travels to Niagara in college hoops. COFFEE BREAK -- “A Photographer Spent Three Years Capturing New Yorkers Reading on the Subway,” by the Observer’s Aisling Brennan: “Everyday New York City subway commuters spend their time transferring between stations in different ways. Some listen to music, others play with their phone, a few close their eyes for a quick snooze and if you look hard enough you’ll see some reading books. Three years ago, Dutch photographer Reinier Gerritsen became captivated by these elusive book readers and has since spent his time photographing New Yorkers reading on their daily commute.” With a photo slideshow:bit.ly/1C6LJF3 THANK YOU for reading, and have a great weekend!
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